Prater gave her husband Clayton permission to post the photo on the website Reddit, which allows users to submit content that others can judge by either “upvoting” or “downvoting.” The caption he chose? “My wife looked like a 60-year-old woman as a child.”

Within hours, hundreds of users had added their own text to the photo, and the meme — which typically juxtaposes an element of childhood and old age — was born. A few examples: